Min's B to B articles from August 2006

Min's B to B archives from August 2006

Ziff Davis For Sale: Whole or Piecemeal?
August 7, 2006... Last Monday (July 31), Ziff Davis announced that it has retained the services of Evercore Partners and Lehman Brothers as financial advisors to explore "strategic alternatives." This is a thinly veiled "for sale" sign. The announcement...

Making Money Standing Up, Part 2: Searching for Verticals.
August 7, 2006... See min's b2b of 7/31 at minonline.com for Part 1 By Steve Smith, digital media editor I have been hearing about the promise of B2B vertical search engines since I was a knee-high cub reporter of the first dot-com boom. After all,...

Production Processes Changing in Pharm Manufacturing Market.
August 7, 2006... Background Major drug companies spend vast amounts of money and time developing processes for making drugs. These processes must be approved by the FDA. Once they are approved, the drug companies are hesitant to change the processes...

Health: Focus on Long Term Care.
August 7, 2006... Occupation rates and Medicare and Medicaid rates rule the long-term care industry. In 2003, the national average occupation rate (the amount of beds that are filled in nursing homes and assisted living facilities) was 84.4%. In 2005, it was...

MacTech Continues to Skyrocket.
August 7, 2006... Apple's last quarterly numbers showed an increase in sales of 12%, bringing them just shy of 5% market-share in the laptop and desktop retail computer market. This is one of two major factors in the astounding success MacTech has had over...

For the Record.(Correction notice)
August 7, 2006... Last week, our broadcast/video boxscore was incorrect. Here is the correct boxscore. We at min's b2b regret the error. BROADCAST/VIDEO AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January - May 2006/2005) ...

News and Notes.(Nelnet acquires Peterson's for $40 million.)(Canon Communications integrates six of the Reed tradeshows.)
August 7, 2006... Nelnet Acquires Peterson's for $40 Million On Thursday, July 27, Nelnet announced its acquisition of Peterson's from The Thomson Corporation. The deal size was $40 million. Nelnet is an education financing company that offers an array of...

VNU: REVOLVING CEO DOORS.
August 14, 2006... Marchesano Gets Muscled Out By Krakoff At Vnu Vnu: Krakoff In, Marchesano "Up" VNU announced on August 8 that Michael Marchesano will no longer be CEO of VNU Business Media USA, a position he has held since 2001. Marchesano will be...

CYGNUS: REVOLVING CEO DOORS.
August 14, 2006... Dual CEO's Replace Mackler at Cygnus Cygnus: Davis/O'Brien In, Mackler Out Cygnus Business Media announced on August 7 that Paul Mackler, president and CEO (and part owner) of Cygnus for six years, will be replaced by co-CEOs Carr Davis...

Two Years Before the Mast(head).
August 14, 2006... K&BB Publisher Marks Anniversary With Success Few B2B magazines can rival the recent performance of VNU's Kitchen & Bath Business, the monthly magazine aimed at those who build and design the most functional areas of homes. Advertising...

Shining a Light on the Laser Books.(Photonics Spectra )(Laser Focus World)
August 14, 2006... You'd be hard pressed to think of two magazines in B2B publishing that are more similar than Photonics Spectra and Laser Focus World. Both cover the complex world of fiber optics and laser rays. Both were founded in the mid-1960s, as the...

Government Pubs Come Back Strong in June.
August 14, 2006... Nothing is as quiet as the nation's capital in August. When Congress begins its summer recess, it seems that everyone who works in Washington goes home--Senators and Representatives to their native districts and bureaucrats, technocrats,...

Four Tips for Shaking the Reprint Tree.
August 14, 2006... By Phil Hall, Managing Editor A good story is worth repeating. And if you can make a few dollars from it, more power to you. And if you can vigorously shake the money tree for extra dollars, even more power to you! So...how come too...

Bye, Bye Eyeballs: See You in the Fall.
August 14, 2006... You have to look closely at this month's Box Scores to see any positive numbers in there. Traffic walked off a cliff in June--probably directly to a warm beach somewhere--as double digit fall-off was the rule rather than the exception. ...

QuickView.
August 14, 2006... Hugh Roome, President of Scholastic International, Immediate past Chair of ABM When Hugh Roome mentions how he and his wife "bought the farm," he is not relating an unfortunate event euphemistically. He and his wife own and live on a...

News and Notes.
August 14, 2006... Billboard Group at VNU Jettisons 26 In a statement released Tuesday, August 8, Billboard announced: "Because of overlapping duties, which is inevitable when two leading brands integrate, there was a staff reduction from both...

Group Publishers' Report--Ad Pages We Track Increase 2.31% YTD.
August 21, 2006... The first half of 2006 group publishers' report, presented exclusively by IMS/The Auditor and min's b2b, slightly contradicts those pallbearers of print who would declare the death of traditional print advertising. More on that later in the...

Baby Boomers' Money Attract Ads, Publishers.
August 21, 2006... As baby boomers approach retirement, the finance industry is preparing for what ABC News has called "the largest asset transfer in history." The idea of millions of Americans moving billions of dollars in and out of retirement funds has...

Broadcast Magazine Ads Appear to Stall.
August 21, 2006... A month ago we reported that the broadcast television industry had apparently embarked on a buying spree after this year's National Association of Broadcasters convention (see min's b2b 7/26.) Tech vendors, hoping to cash in on that buying...

A Logistics Pub Grows While Most Transport Mags Sag.
August 21, 2006... Look through the June issue of Global Logistics/Supply Chain Strategies and the strange thing is that nothing about the ads will jump out at you. There are 22 advertisers in the 66-page issue. One advertiser, the Port of Virginia, is running...

Buying Search Traffic.(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor In the consumer world, the practice of buying traffic from search is becoming a new art that can be very profitable for sites that have sold out their existing inventory and need more. As described to...

News and Notes.(Milo Media that publishes Lift Application & Equipment, CraneWords, and Utility & Telecom Fleets magazines has purchased Fuel Cell magazine.)(American Machinist announced an extensive partnership with Ringier Trade Publishing, a Chinese counterpart in the machine tools industry.)(Managing Automation's new Web site.)
August 21, 2006... CMP Tech Hires Cox and Johnson to Spearhead Sales and Marketing John Cox and Lisa Johnson, ex-TechTarget sales and marketing executives, have been hired by CMP Technology to be vice president of account development for the business...

Letter To the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
August 21, 2006... Last week, we printed an article entitled "VNU: Krakoff In, Marchesano "Up". Sources at VNU wish to respond to this piece: To the Editor: We believe your August 14 story, "VNU: Krakoff In, Marchesano 'Up'," contains a number of...

VNU Group Draws American Ace.
August 28, 2006... David Calhoun, vice chairman of GE and CEO of GE Infrastructure, has been named the new CEO and chairman of the executive board at VNU Group, the Netherlands based company recently acquired by Valcon, a US-based private equity consortium. He...

Group Publishers' Boxscores: Top Gainers Examined.
August 28, 2006... This week, our exclusive group publishers' coverage takes us from Canon Communications, now being run by Apprise Media's Charlie McCurdy, to Hart Communications. Commonwealth Business Media--recently purchased by UBM for $152 million...

Food Stuff: Focus on Road-Trip Oases.
August 28, 2006... The price of gas is a subject on the minds of many Americans, especially with owners of gas station convenience stores. When the price of gas goes up, so does their profit margin on the gas sold. Last year saw a 22% increase in gas sales at...

Telephony Dials Up Supplement, Responds to Market Need.
August 28, 2006... Telephony, the biggest book in the telecom space that we follow, is having a good year for ad pages, up 25 pages (7.33%). Things are set to improve even further as Telephony has a supplement planned for its September 25 issue that will focus...

ABRN Laps BodyShop Business.
August 28, 2006... Efficiency has been the main editorial theme in the body shop books we follow, Advanstar's ABRN and Babcox's BodyShop Business. Car insurance companies--the drivers, excuse the pun, of this industry--have been pushing for increased...

CE News Overtakes Civil Engineering.
August 28, 2006... Look for an analysis of this competition the next time we review the engineering sector. ENGINEERING AD PAGES AND REVENUES (January-June 2006/2005) Ad Pages Ad Pages Title...

May M&A Media Transactions.
August 28, 2006... KEY 2Q '06 B2B MEDIA/INFO DEALS Buyer/ Seller: Advantage Media/ Catalyst Partners Property: New Product Division, a portfolio of B2B magazines and online properties for the manufacturing and scientific industries. Est. Value: N.A....

Podcasting Gets Down to Business.
August 28, 2006... By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor With a monthly reach of 20 million, iTunes is one of the most important media hubs online. You can find audio shows for InfoWorld and JAMA right beside the weekly celebrity buzz from People.com. iTunes...

News and Notes.
August 28, 2006... VNU Launches Managesmarter.com, Manifestation of Web Portal Strategy On August 1, VNU launched Managesmarter.com, an aggregation of the Web assets of five of its print publications, Incentive, Potentials, Sales and Marketing Management,...